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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3947 

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to reduce the standard 

workweek from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 14, 2024 

Mr. SANDERS (for himself and Ms. BUTLER) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to reduce 

the standard workweek from 40 hours per week to 32 

hours per week, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Thirty-Two Hour 

5 Workweek Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT. 

7 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 

8 201 et seq.) is amended— 

9 (1) in section 7 (29 U.S.C. 207)— 


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1 (A) in subsection (a)— 

2 (i) in paragraph (1)— 

3 (I) by striking ‘‘commerce, for a 

4 workweek longer than forty hours’’ 

5 and all that follows through the period 

6 and inserting ‘‘commerce—’’; and 

7 (II) by adding at the end the fol8 lowing: 

9 ‘‘(A) for a workweek longer than thirty-two 

10 hours unless such employee receives compensation 

11 for his employment in excess of such hours at a rate 

12 not less than one and one-half times the regular rate 

13 at which he is employed; or 

14 ‘‘(B) for a workday— 

15 ‘‘(i) longer than eight hours, but not longer 

16 than 12 hours, unless such employee receives 

17 compensation for his employment in excess of 

18 eight hours at a rate not less than one and one19 half times the regular rate at which he is em20 ployed; or 

21 ‘‘(ii) longer than twelve hours unless such 

22 employee receives compensation for his employ23 ment in excess of such hours at a rate not less 

24 than double the regular rate at which he is em25 ployed.’’; 


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1 (ii) in paragraph (2)— 

2 (I) in the matter that precedes 

3 subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘Fair 

4 Labor Standards Amendments of 

5 1966’’ and inserting ‘‘Thirty-Two 

6 Hour Workweek Act’’; and 

7 (II) by striking subparagraphs 

8 (A) through (C) and inserting the fol9 lowing: 

10 ‘‘(A) for a workweek longer than thirty-eight 

11 hours during the 1-year period beginning not less 

12 than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the 

13 Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, 

14 ‘‘(B) for a workweek longer than thirty-six 

15 hours during the second year after the first day of 

16 such period, 

17 ‘‘(C) for a workweek longer than thirty-four 

18 hours during the third year after the first day of 

19 such period, or 

20 ‘‘(D) for a workweek longer than thirty-two 

21 hours after the expiration of the third year after the 

22 first day of such period,’’; and 

23 (iii) by adding at the end the fol24 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(3) With respect to any employee described in para2 graph (2) who in any workweek is brought within the pur3 view of this subsection by the amendments made to this 

4 Act by the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, the employer 

5 of such employee may not reduce the total workweek com6 pensation rate, including the regular rate at which the em7 ployee is employed, or any other employee benefit due to 

8 the employee being brought within the purview of this sub9 section by such amendments.’’; and 

10 (B) in subsection (l)— 

11 (i) by striking ‘‘No’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘Except as provided in subsection (a)(2), 

13 no’’; and 

14 (ii) by striking ‘‘forty’’ and inserting 

15 ‘‘thirty-two’’; and 

16 (2) in section 18(a) (29 U.S.C. 218(a)) by in17 serting ‘‘or workday’’ after ‘‘workweek’’ in each 

18 place it occurs. 

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